Premiere Pro Guru: Compositing and Masks (2015)

Course details

Master compositing and masks using the native effects in Adobe Premiere Pro—with no third-party plugins. Adobe Premiere Pro Master Instructor Luisa Winters shows how to make these crucial techniques part of your everyday editing workflow. She covers creating and modifying alpha channels, keying blue and green screen footage with Ultra Key, using track mattes to affect moving parts of clips, changing the look of footage with blend modes, and so much more.

Learning objectives
Working with alpha channels
Keying blue and green screen footage with Ultra Key
Affecting a moving piece of video with Track Matte Key
Creating a composite with the Difference Matte effect
Using Luma key for a brightness-based composite
Changing the character of footage with blend modes
Masking effects to certain portions of your footage

Concepts

Getting Started

01 - Welcome
02 - Using the exercise files

1. What Are Alpha Channels

03 - Alpha channels - How color and transparency work in video
04 - Two types of alpha channels - Straight and premultiplied
05 - Keying and matting, what's the difference
06 - Creating and modifying alpha channels
07 - Using garbage mattes
08 - Codecs that support the alpha channel

2. Using Ultra Key to Key Green and Blue Screen Footage

09 - Isolating footage with masks
10 - An overview of the automatic settings
11 - Matte generation and keying footage
12 - Removing color casts with spill suppression
13 - Improving the image with color correction
14 - Tips for better keying

3. Using the Track Matte Key to Affect a Moving Piece of Video

15 - What's the difference between track mattes and masks
16 - Creating a matte to fit your footage
17 - Adjusting the motion of the matte
18 - Tips for better matte keys

4. Exploring Other Keying Effects

19 - Using any color to create a composite with Color Key
20 - Creating a composite with the Difference Matte key
21 - Using Luma Key to create a composite based on brightness
22 - Understanding the Non-Red Key effect
23 - Using the Alpha Adjust effect

5. Adjusting Blending Modes to Change the Character of Your Footage

24 - What are blending modes and how to use them effectively
25 - Understanding the Normal category
26 - Darken your footage using the Subtractive category
27 - Lighten your footage using the Additive category
28 - How to use the Complex category
29 - Create colors using the Difference category
30 - Transfer luma or chroma using the HSL category

6. Using Masks to Affect a Portion of Your Footage

31 - Understanding effects that use masks
32 - Creating masks using Bezier curves
33 - Understanding mask feather, opacity, and expansion
34 - When your mask needs to move - Tracking
35 - Tips for better tracking

Conclusion

36 - Goodbye